Stift St. Florian

Saxophone and Live Electronics Improvisation Concert

Jérôme Nika (FR), Rémi Fox (FR)

C’est pour ça develops an electronic aesthetic while seeking to preserve the organic character of the summoned “memories” (traditional choirs, spoken voice, saxophone playing modes...).

Anschwellen - Abschwellen

Volkmar Klien (AT)

Fully erect, the clock dominates for a while and then subsides; its feathery crown sinking in front of it.

The tenor duets of Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble Vivante (AT)

Ensemble Vivante presents the dramatically charged vocal music of a contemporary of Kepler, offering works whose texts reflect their time’s turbulence, innovation and discovery through their depictions of nature and humanity.

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Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Unexpected and uncontrollable analogue signals are altered and bent by the artist to create an audio/video noise-scape. Pre-recorded (installation) or live audio signals, audible through speakers, are sent directly to CRT monitors mounted on the speakers, visualizing the signal in flickering and abstract shapes and lines in black and white to create a time-based sculpture.

Tenebrae

Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)

A solo concert for clarinet (and bass clarinet) that works with the very special acoustics and reverbs of Sankt Florian’s Marmorsaal and evokes different musical styles from Gregorian to Monteverdi and Gesualdo da Venosa. Sometimes it makes a timbral memory appear, borrowed from practices and memories of electronic musical culture. Tenebrae (Latin for “darkness”) is a religious service of Western Christianity.

Bruckner Percussion plays Xénakis

Leonhard Schmidinger (AT), Fabian Homar (AT), Vladimir Petrov (BG)

Iannis Xénakis (1922-2001) composed Okho for three djembe players. The premiere took place on October 20, 1989 on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival. Our interpretation deviates from the original instrumentation and makes use of an extended percussion setup of the kind Xénakis himself uses in his solo piece Rebond B for percussion.

Organ Music in the Field of Tension Between Inspiration, Compostition and Improvisation

Klaus Sonnleitner (AT)

Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert takes the audience from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to French sound worlds and improvisations in the spirit of Anton Bruckner.

Orogenesis: Spacial Piano Improvisation Inspired by the Formation of Mountains

Rupert Huber (AT)

When two continental plates collide, one becomes subducted beneath the other. Rupert Huber´s piano improvisation represents this process by putting sound to the formation of an imaginary mountain.

SHOJIKI “Play Back” Curing Tapes

Muku Kobayashi (JP), Mitsuru Tokisato (JP)

Rewinding curing tapes with a motor. The performers use a switch to control the rotation direction of the motor and its ON/OFF. Each time the tape is rewound on to the motor axis, it makes peeling sounds and continuant sounds.

Soundform No.1

Yasuaki Kakehi (JP), Mikhail Mansion (US), Kuan-Ju Wu (US)

Soundform No.1 is a minimalistic soundscape and kinetic art installation that transforms heat energy into a poetically evolving, spatiotemporal composition. Through modulations of heat, light and motion, the artwork creates an ever-changing atmosphere of Zen-like tonal patterns and visual effects.